Library
Module
Module type
Parameter
Class
Class type
Cairo: A Vector Graphics Library (bindings).
Drawing:
Pattern
: Sources for drawing.Fonts:
Font_face
: Base module for font faces.Scaled_font
: Font face at particular size and options.Font_options
: How a font should be rendered.Ft
: FreeType Fonts -- Font support for FreeType.Win32_font
: Win32 Fonts -- Font support for Microsoft Windows.Quartz_font
: Quartz (CGFont) Fonts -- Font support via CGFont on OS X.User_font
: Font support with font data provided by the user.Surfaces (platform independent Surface backends and others):
Surface
: Base module for surfaces.Image
: Image Surfaces -- Rendering to memory buffers.PDF
: PDF Surfaces -- Rendering PDF documents.PNG
: PNG Support -- Reading and writing PNG images.PS
: PostScript Surfaces -- Rendering PostScript documents.SVG
: SVG Surfaces -- Rendering SVG documents.Surfaces that Cairo supports but for which no OCaml binding has been created (yet, please contribute!):
XLib
: XLib Surfaces -- X Window System rendering using XLib.Win32
: Win32 Surfaces -- Microsoft Windows surface support.Quartz
: Quartz Surfaces -- Rendering to Quartz surfaces.In order to get acquainted with Cairo's concepts we recommend that you read the Cairo OCaml tutorial.
type status =
| INVALID_RESTORE
| INVALID_POP_GROUP
| NO_CURRENT_POINT
| INVALID_MATRIX
| INVALID_STATUS
| NULL_POINTER
| INVALID_STRING
| INVALID_PATH_DATA
| READ_ERROR
| WRITE_ERROR
| SURFACE_FINISHED
| SURFACE_TYPE_MISMATCH
| PATTERN_TYPE_MISMATCH
| INVALID_CONTENT
| INVALID_FORMAT
| INVALID_VISUAL
| FILE_NOT_FOUND
| INVALID_DASH
| INVALID_DSC_COMMENT
| INVALID_INDEX
| CLIP_NOT_REPRESENTABLE
| TEMP_FILE_ERROR
| INVALID_STRIDE
| FONT_TYPE_MISMATCH
| USER_FONT_IMMUTABLE
| USER_FONT_ERROR
| NEGATIVE_COUNT
| INVALID_CLUSTERS
| INVALID_SLANT
| INVALID_WEIGHT
| INVALID_SIZE
| USER_FONT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
| DEVICE_TYPE_MISMATCH
| DEVICE_ERROR
| INVALID_MESH_CONSTRUCTION
| DEVICE_FINISHED
| JBIG2_GLOBAL_MISSING
exception Error of status
Error status
: raised by functions of this module to indicate a cause of failure.
val status_to_string : status -> string
Provides a human-readable description of a status.
Exception raised by functions of backend modules when they are not available in the installed Cairo library.
The cairo drawing context. This is the main object used when drawing with cairo. To draw with cairo, you create a Surface.t
, create
a context
from it and create shapes with functions such as Cairo.move_to
and Cairo.line_to
, and then actually draw them with Cairo.stroke
or Cairo.fill
.
type matrix = {
mutable xx : float;
mutable yx : float;
mutable xy : float;
mutable yy : float;
mutable x0 : float;
mutable y0 : float;
}
Holds an affine transformation, such as a scale, rotation, shear, or a combination of those. The transformation of a point (x, y) is given by:
x_new = xx *. x +. xy *. y +. x0;
y_new = yx *. x +. yy *. y +. y0;
module Matrix : sig ... end
This is used throughout cairo to convert between different coordinate spaces.
type text_extents = {
x_bearing : float;
The horizontal distance from the origin of the text to the leftmost part of the glyphs as drawn. Positive if the glyphs lie entirely to the right of the origin.
*)y_bearing : float;
The vertical distance from the origin to the topmost part of the glyphs as drawn. Positive only if the glyphs lie completely below the origin; will usually be negative.
*)width : float;
width of the glyphs as drawn
*)height : float;
height of the glyphs as drawn
*)x_advance : float;
Distance to advance in the X direction after drawing these glyphs.
*)y_advance : float;
Distance to advance in the Y direction after drawing these glyphs. Will typically be zero except for vertical text layout as found in East-Asian languages.
*)}
The Cairo.text_extents
structure stores the extents of a single glyph or a string of glyphs in user-space coordinates. Because text extents are in user-space coordinates, they are mostly, but not entirely, independent of the current transformation matrix. If you call Cairo.scale
cr 2.0 2.0
, text will be drawn twice as big, but the reported text extents will not be doubled. They will change slightly due to hinting (so you can't assume that metrics are independent of the transformation matrix), but otherwise will remain unchanged.
module Glyph : sig ... end
This is Cairo low-level text API. The low-level API relies on the user to convert text to a set of glyph indexes and positions. This is a very hard problem and is best handled by external libraries, like the pangocairo that is part of the Pango text layout and rendering library. Pango is available from http://www.pango.org/
This is cairo's toy text API. The toy API takes UTF-8 encoded text and is limited in its functionality to rendering simple left-to-right text with no advanced features. That means for example that most complex scripts like Hebrew, Arabic, and Indic scripts are out of question. No kerning or correct positioning of diacritical marks either. The font selection is pretty limited too and doesn't handle the case that the selected font does not cover the characters in the text. This set of functions are really that, a toy text API, for testing and demonstration purposes. Any serious application should avoid them.
See the Glyph
module for the low-level text API.
type antialias =
| ANTIALIAS_DEFAULT
Use the default antialiasing for the subsystem and target device
*)| ANTIALIAS_NONE
Use a bilevel alpha mask
*)| ANTIALIAS_GRAY
Perform single-color antialiasing (using shades of gray for black text on a white background, for example).
*)| ANTIALIAS_SUBPIXEL
Perform antialiasing by taking advantage of the order of subpixel elements on devices such as LCD panels
*)Specifies the type of antialiasing to do when rendering text or shapes.
type subpixel_order =
| SUBPIXEL_ORDER_DEFAULT
Use the default subpixel order for for the target device
*)| SUBPIXEL_ORDER_RGB
Subpixel elements are arranged horizontally with red at the left
*)| SUBPIXEL_ORDER_BGR
Subpixel elements are arranged horizontally with blue at the left
*)| SUBPIXEL_ORDER_VRGB
Subpixel elements are arranged vertically with red at the top
*)| SUBPIXEL_ORDER_VBGR
Subpixel elements are arranged vertically with blue at the top
*)The subpixel order specifies the order of color elements within each pixel on the display device when rendering with an antialiasing mode of ANTIALIAS_SUBPIXEL
(see Cairo.antialias
).
type hint_style =
| HINT_STYLE_DEFAULT
Use the default hint style for font backend and target device
*)| HINT_STYLE_NONE
Do not hint outlines
*)| HINT_STYLE_SLIGHT
Hint outlines slightly to improve contrast while retaining good fidelity to the original shapes.
*)| HINT_STYLE_MEDIUM
Hint outlines with medium strength giving a compromise between fidelity to the original shapes and contrast.
*)| HINT_STYLE_FULL
Hint outlines to maximize contrast.
*)Specifies the type of hinting to do on font outlines. Hinting is the process of fitting outlines to the pixel grid in order to improve the appearance of the result. Since hinting outlines involves distorting them, it also reduces the faithfulness to the original outline shapes. Not all of the outline hinting styles are supported by all font backends.
Specifies whether to hint font metrics; hinting font metrics means quantizing them so that they are integer values in device space. Doing this improves the consistency of letter and line spacing, however it also means that text will be laid out differently at different zoom factors.
module Font_options : sig ... end
The font options specify how fonts should be rendered. Most of the time the font options implied by a surface are just right and do not need any changes, but for pixel-based targets tweaking font options may result in superior output on a particular display.
type font_type = [
| `Toy
The font was created using cairo's toy font api
*)| `Ft
The font is of type FreeType
*)| `Win32
The font is of type Win32
*)| `Quartz
The font is of type Quartz
*)| `User
The font was create using cairo's user font api
*) ]
Cairo.font_type
is used to describe the type of a given font face or scaled font. The font types are also known as "font backends" within cairo.
The type of a font face is determined by the function used to create it, which will generally be of the form Cairo.*.font_face_create
. The font face type can be queried with Cairo.Font_face.get_type
The various Cairo.Font_face
functions can be used with a font face of any type.
The type of a scaled font is determined by the type of the font face passed to Cairo.Scaled_font.create
. The scaled font type can be queried with Cairo.Scaled_font.get_type
.
The various Cairo.Scaled_font
functions can be used with scaled fonts of any type, but some font backends also provide type-specific functions (such as Cairo.Ft.scaled_font_lock_face
) that must only be called with a scaled font of the appropriate type.
FIXME: The behavior of calling a type-specific function with a scaled font of the wrong type is undefined.
module Font_face : sig ... end
Cairo.Font_face.t
represents a particular font at a particular weight, slant, and other characteristic but no size, transformation, or size.
type font_extents = {
ascent : float;
the distance that the font extends above the baseline. Note that this is not always exactly equal to the maximum of the extents of all the glyphs in the font, but rather is picked to express the font designer's intent as to how the font should align with elements above it.
*)descent : float;
the distance that the font extends below the baseline. This value is positive for typical fonts that include portions below the baseline. Note that this is not always exactly equal to the maximum of the extents of all the glyphs in the font, but rather is picked to express the font designer's intent as to how the the font should align with elements below it.
*)baseline : float;
the recommended vertical distance between baselines when setting consecutive lines of text with the font. This is greater than ascent+descent by a quantity known as the line spacing or external leading. When space is at a premium, most fonts can be set with only a distance of ascent+descent between lines.
*)max_x_advance : float;
the maximum distance in the X direction that the the origin is advanced for any glyph in the font.
*)max_y_advance : float;
the maximum distance in the Y direction that the the origin is advanced for any glyph in the font. this will be zero for normal fonts used for horizontal writing. (The scripts of East Asia are sometimes written vertically.)
*)}
The Cairo.font_extents
structure stores metric information for a font. Values are given in the current user-space coordinate system.
Because font metrics are in user-space coordinates, they are mostly, but not entirely, independent of the current transformation matrix. If you call Cairo.scale
cr 2.0 2.0
, text will be drawn twice as big, but the reported text extents will not be doubled. They will change slightly due to hinting (so you can't assume that metrics are independent of the transformation matrix), but otherwise will remain unchanged.
module Scaled_font : sig ... end
Cairo.Scaled_font.t
represents a realization of a font face at a particular size and transformation and a certain set of font options.
select_font_face cr family ?slant ?weight
selects a family and style of font from a simplified description as a family name, slant and weight. Cairo provides no operation to list available family names on the system (this is a "toy", remember), but the standard CSS2 generic family names, ("serif", "sans-serif", "cursive", "fantasy", "monospace"), are likely to work as expected.
val set_font_size : context -> float -> unit
set_font_size cr size
sets the current font matrix to a scale by a factor of size, replacing any font matrix previously set with set_font_size
or Cairo.set_font_matrix
. This results in a font size of size user space units. (More precisely, this matrix will result in the font's em-square being a size by size square in user space.)
If text is drawn without a call to set_font_size
(nor Cairo.set_font_matrix
, nor Cairo.Scaled_font.set
), the default font size is 10.0.
set_font_matrix cr matrix
sets the current font matrix to matrix
. The font matrix gives a transformation from the design space of the font (in this space, the em-square is 1 unit by 1 unit) to user space. Normally, a simple scale is used (see Cairo.set_font_size
), but a more complex font matrix can be used to shear the font or stretch it unequally along the two axes.
Returns the current font matrix. See Cairo.set_font_matrix
.
val show_text : context -> string -> unit
A drawing operator that generates the shape from a string of UTF-8 characters, rendered according to the current font_face
, font_size
(font_matrix), and font_options
.
This function first computes a set of glyphs for the string of text. The first glyph is placed so that its origin is at the current point. The origin of each subsequent glyph is offset from that of the previous glyph by the advance values of the previous glyph.
After this call the current point is moved to the origin of where the next glyph would be placed in this same progression. That is, the current point will be at the origin of the final glyph offset by its advance values. This allows for easy display of a single logical string with multiple calls to show_text
.
val font_extents : context -> font_extents
Gets the font extents for the currently selected font.
val text_extents : context -> string -> text_extents
text_extents cr utf8
gets the extents for a string of text. The extents describe a user-space rectangle that encloses the "inked" portion of the text (as it would be drawn by Cairo.show_text
). Additionally, the x_advance
and y_advance
values indicate the amount by which the current point would be advanced by Cairo.show_text
.
Note that whitespace characters do not directly contribute to the size of the rectangle (extents.width
and extents.height
). They do contribute indirectly by changing the position of non-whitespace characters. In particular, trailing whitespace characters are likely to not affect the size of the rectangle, though they will affect the x_advance
and y_advance
values.
type rectangle = {
x : float;
X coordinate of the left side of the rectangle
*)y : float;
Y coordinate of the the top side of the rectangle
*)w : float;
width of the rectangle
*)h : float;
height of the rectangle
*)}
A data structure for holding a rectangle.
This is used to describe the content that a surface will contain, whether color information, alpha information (translucence vs. opacity), or both.
module Surface : sig ... end
Abstract representation of all different drawing targets that cairo can render to; the actual drawings are performed using a cairo context.
Below are the surface backends that do not depend of a particular platform. XLib
, Win32
, and Quartz
are defined in their own modules.
module Image : sig ... end
Image surfaces provide the ability to render to memory buffers either allocated by cairo or by the calling code. The supported image formats are those defined in Cairo.Image.format
.
module PDF : sig ... end
The PDF surface is used to render cairo graphics to Adobe PDF files and is a multi-page vector surface backend.
module PNG : sig ... end
The PNG functions allow reading PNG images into image surfaces, and writing any surface to a PNG file.
module PS : sig ... end
The PostScript surface is used to render cairo graphics to Adobe PostScript files and is a multi-page vector surface backend.
module SVG : sig ... end
The SVG surface is used to render cairo graphics to SVG files and is a multi-page vector surface backend.
module Recording : sig ... end
The recording surface is a surface that records all drawing operations at the highest level of the surface backend interface. The surface can then be "replayed" against any target surface by using it as a source surface.
module Pattern : sig ... end
Paint (and also mask and brush) with which cairo draws and associated function.
create target
creates a new context with all graphics state parameters set to default values and with target
as a target surface. The target surface should be constructed with a backend-specific function such as Cairo.Image.create
(or any other Backend.create
variant). For many backends, you should not forget to call Cairo.Surface.finish
for the data to be completely outputted.
val save : context -> unit
save cr
makes a copy of the current state of cr
and saves it on an internal stack of saved states for cr
. When restore
is called, cr
will be restored to the saved state. Multiple calls to save
and restore
can be nested; each call to restore
restores the state from the matching paired save
.
val restore : context -> unit
save cr
makes a copy of the current state of cr
and saves it on an internal stack of saved states for cr
. When restore
is called, cr
will be restored to the saved state. Multiple calls to save
and restore
can be nested; each call to restore
restores the state from the matching paired save
.
restore cr
restores cr
to the state saved by a preceding call to save
and removes that state from the stack of saved states.
Gets the target surface for the cairo context as passed to create
.
module Group : sig ... end
Temporary redirection of drawing commands to intermediate surfaces.
val set_source_rgb : context -> r:float -> g:float -> b:float -> unit
set_source_rgb cr r g b
sets the source pattern within cr
to an opaque color. This opaque color will then be used for any subsequent drawing operation until a new source pattern is set.
The color components are floating point numbers in the range 0 to 1. If the values passed in are outside that range, they will be clamped.
The default source pattern is opaque black (that is, it is equivalent to set_source_rgb cr 0. 0. 0.
).
val set_source_rgba :
context ->
r:float ->
g:float ->
b:float ->
a:float ->
unit
set_source_rgba cr r g b a
sets the source pattern within cr
to a translucent color. This color will then be used for any subsequent drawing operation until a new source pattern is set.
The color and alpha components are floating point numbers in the range 0 to 1. If the values passed in are outside that range, they will be clamped.
The default source pattern is opaque black (that is, it is equivalent to set_source_rgba cr 0. 0. 0. 1.0
).
set_source cr source
sets the source pattern within cr
to source
. This pattern will then be used for any subsequent drawing operation until a new source pattern is set.
Note: The pattern's transformation matrix will be locked to the user space in effect at the time of set_source
. This means that further modifications of the current transformation matrix will not affect the source pattern. See Pattern.set_matrix
.
The default source pattern is a solid pattern that is opaque black (that is, it is equivalent to set_source_rgb cr 0. 0. 0.
).
set_source_surface cr surface x y
is a convenience for creating a pattern from surface and setting it as the source in cr
with set_source
.
The x
and y
parameters give the user-space coordinate at which the surface origin should appear. (The surface origin is its upper-left corner before any transformation has been applied.) The x and y patterns are negated and then set as translation values in the pattern matrix.
Other than the initial translation pattern matrix, as described above, all other pattern attributes (such as its extend mode) are set to the default values as in Pattern.create_for_surface
. The resulting pattern can be queried with Cairo.get_source
so that these attributes can be modified if desired (e.g. to create a repeating pattern with Cairo.Pattern.set_extend
).
val get_source : context -> Pattern.any
get_source cr
gets the current source pattern for cr
.
Set the antialiasing mode of the rasterizer used for drawing shapes. This value is a hint, and a particular backend may or may not support a particular value. At the current time, no backend supports ANTIALIAS_SUBPIXEL
when drawing shapes.
Note that this option does not affect text rendering, instead see Cairo.Font_options.set_antialias
.
Gets the current shape antialiasing mode, as set by Cairo.set_antialias
.
val set_dash : context -> ?ofs:float -> float array -> unit
set_dash cr dashes
sets the dash pattern to be used by Cairo.stroke
. A dash pattern is specified by dashes, an array of positive values. Each value provides the length of alternate "on" and "off" portions of the stroke. The offset ofs
specifies an offset into the pattern at which the stroke begins (default: 0.
).
set_dash [| |]
disable dashing. set_dash [|l|]
sets a symmetric pattern with alternating on and off portions of the size l
.
Each "on" segment will have caps applied as if the segment were a separate sub-path. In particular, it is valid to use an "on" length of 0.0 with Cairo.line_cap
being ROUND
or SQUARE
in order to distributed dots or squares along a path.
Note: The length values are in user-space units as evaluated at the time of stroking. This is not necessarily the same as the user space at the time of set_dash
.
val get_dash : context -> float array * float
Gets the current dash array (( [| |], 0.)
if dashing is not currently in effect).
type fill_rule =
| WINDING
If the path crosses the ray from left-to-right, counts +1. If the path crosses the ray from right to left, counts -1. (Left and right are determined from the perspective of looking along the ray from the starting point.) If the total count is non-zero, the point will be filled.
*)| EVEN_ODD
Counts the total number of intersections, without regard to the orientation of the contour. If the total number of intersections is odd, the point will be filled.
*)Used to select how paths are filled. For both fill rules, whether or not a point is included in the fill is determined by taking a ray from that point to infinity and looking at intersections with the path. The ray can be in any direction, as long as it doesn't pass through the end point of a segment or have a tricky intersection such as intersecting tangent to the path. (Note that filling is not actually implemented in this way. This is just a description of the rule that is applied.)
The default fill rule is WINDING
.
set_fill_rule cr fill_rule
sets the current fill rule within the cairo context cr
. The fill rule is used to determine which regions are inside or outside a complex (potentially self-intersecting) path. The current fill rule affects both Cairo.fill
and Cairo.clip
. See Cairo.fill_rule
for details on the semantics of each available fill rule.
Specifies how to render the endpoints of the path when stroking. The default line cap style is BUTT
.
set_line_cap cr line_cap
sets the current line cap style within the cairo context cr
. See Cairo.line_cap
for details about how the available line cap styles are drawn.
As with the other stroke parameters, the current line cap style is examined by Cairo.stroke
, Cairo.stroke_extents
, and Cairo.stroke_to_path
, but does not have any effect during path construction.
The default line cap style is BUTT
.
Gets the current line cap style, as set by Cairo.set_line_cap
.
Specifies how to render the junction of two lines when stroking. The default line join style is MITER
.
Sets the current line join style within the cairo context. See Cairo.line_join
for details about how the available line join styles are drawn.
As with the other stroke parameters, the current line join style is examined by Cairo.stroke
, Cairo.stroke_extents
, and Cairo.stroke_to_path
, but does not have any effect during path construction.
The default line join style is MITER
.
Sets the current line join style within the cairo context. See Cairo.line_join
for details about how the available line join styles are drawn.
As with the other stroke parameters, the current line join style is examined by Cairo.stroke
, Cairo.stroke_extents
, and Cairo.stroke_to_path
, but does not have any effect during path construction.
The default line join style is MITER
.
Gets the current line join style, as set by Cairo.set_line_join
.
val set_line_width : context -> float -> unit
Sets the current line width within the cairo context. The line width value specifies the diameter of a pen that is circular in user space (though device-space pen may be an ellipse in general due to scaling/shear/rotation of the CTM).
Note: When the description above refers to user space and CTM it refers to the user space and CTM in effect at the time of the stroking operation, not the user space and CTM in effect at the time of the call to set_line_width
. The simplest usage makes both of these spaces identical. That is, if there is no change to the CTM between a call to set_line_with
and the stroking operation, then one can just pass user-space values to set_line_width
and ignore this note.
As with the other stroke parameters, the current line width is examined by Cairo.stroke
, Cairo.stroke_extents
, and Cairo.stroke_to_path
, but does not have any effect during path construction.
The default line width value is 2.0
.
val get_line_width : context -> float
This function returns the current line width value exactly as set by Cairo.set_line_width
. Note that the value is unchanged even if the CTM has changed between the calls to set_line_width
and get_line_width
.
val set_miter_limit : context -> float -> unit
Sets the current miter limit within the cairo context.
If the current line join style is set to MITER
(see Cairo.set_line_join
), the miter limit is used to determine whether the lines should be joined with a bevel instead of a miter. Cairo divides the length of the miter by the line width. If the result is greater than the miter limit, the style is converted to a bevel.
As with the other stroke parameters, the current line miter limit is examined by Cairo.stroke
, Cairo.stroke_extents
, and Cairo.stroke_to_path
, but does not have any effect during path construction.
The default miter limit value is 10.0
, which will convert joins with interior angles less than 11 degrees to bevels instead of miters. For reference, a miter limit of 2.0 makes the miter cutoff at 60 degrees, and a miter limit of 1.414 makes the cutoff at 90 degrees.
A miter limit for a desired angle can be computed as: miter limit = 1/sin(angle/2).
val get_miter_limit : context -> float
Gets the current miter limit, as set by Cairo.set_miter_limit
.
type operator =
| CLEAR
clear destination layer (bounded)
*)| SOURCE
replace destination layer (bounded)
*)| OVER
draw source layer on top of destination layer (bounded)
*)| IN
draw source where there was destination content (unbounded)
*)| OUT
draw source where there was no destination content (unbounded)
*)| ATOP
draw source on top of destination content and only there
*)| DEST
ignore the source
*)| DEST_OVER
draw destination on top of source
*)| DEST_IN
leave destination only where there was source content (unbounded)
*)| DEST_OUT
leave destination only where there was no source content
*)| DEST_ATOP
leave destination on top of source content and only there (unbounded)
*)| XOR
source and destination are shown where there is only one of them
*)| ADD
source and destination layers are accumulated
*)| SATURATE
like over, but assuming source and dest are disjoint geometries
*)Compositing operator for all cairo drawing operations.
The default operator is Cairo.Operator.OVER
.
The operators marked as unbounded modify their destination even outside of the mask layer (that is, their effect is not bound by the mask layer). However, their effect can still be limited by way of clipping.
To keep things simple, the operator descriptions here document the behavior for when both source and destination are either fully transparent or fully opaque. The actual implementation works for translucent layers too. For a more detailed explanation of the effects of each operator, including the mathematical definitions, see http://cairographics.org/operators/
Sets the compositing operator to be used for all drawing operations. See Cairo.operator
for details on the semantics of each available compositing operator.
The default operator is OVER
.
val set_tolerance : context -> float -> unit
Sets the tolerance used when converting paths into trapezoids. Curved segments of the path will be subdivided until the maximum deviation between the original path and the polygonal approximation is less than tolerance. The default value is 0.1
. A larger value will give better performance, a smaller value, better appearance. (Reducing the value from the default value of 0.1
is unlikely to improve appearance significantly.)
val get_tolerance : context -> float
Sets the tolerance used when converting paths into trapezoids. Curved segments of the path will be subdivided until the maximum deviation between the original path and the polygonal approximation is less than tolerance. The default value is 0.1
. A larger value will give better performance, a smaller value, better appearance. (Reducing the value from the default value of 0.1
is unlikely to improve appearance significantly.)
Gets the current tolerance value, as set by Cairo.set_tolerance
.
val clip : context -> unit
Establishes a new clip region by intersecting the current clip region with the current path as it would be filled by Cairo.fill
and according to the current fill rule (see Cairo.set_fill_rule
).
After clip
, the current path will be cleared from the cairo context.
Calling Cairo.clip
can only make the clip region smaller, never larger. But the current clip is part of the graphics state, so a temporary restriction of the clip region can be achieved by calling Cairo.clip
within a Cairo.save
/ Cairo.restore
pair. The only other means of increasing the size of the clip region is Cairo.clip_reset
.
val clip_preserve : context -> unit
Establishes a new clip region by intersecting the current clip region with the current path as it would be filled by Cairo.fill
and according to the current fill rule (see Cairo.set_fill_rule
).
Unlike Cairo.clip
, preserves the path within the cairo context.
Calling Cairo.clip_preserve
can only make the clip region smaller, never larger. But the current clip is part of the graphics state, so a temporary restriction of the clip region can be achieved by calling Cairo.clip_preserve
within a Cairo.save
/ Cairo.restore
pair. The only other means of increasing the size of the clip region is Cairo.clip_reset
.
Computes a bounding box in user coordinates covering the area inside the current clip.
val clip_reset : context -> unit
Reset the current clip region to its original, unrestricted state. That is, set the clip region to an infinitely large shape containing the target surface. Equivalently, if infinity is too hard to grasp, one can imagine the clip region being reset to the exact bounds of the target surface.
Note that code meant to be reusable should not call clip_reset
as it will cause results unexpected by higher-level code which calls Cairo.clip
. Consider using Cairo.save
and Cairo.restore
around Cairo.clip
as a more robust means of temporarily restricting the clip region.
(This function binds Cairo cairo_reset_clip
.)
Gets the current clip region as a list of rectangles in user coordinates.
Raises Error(CLIP_NOT_REPRESENTABLE)
to indicate that the clip region cannot be represented as a list of user-space rectangles.
val fill : context -> unit
A drawing operator that fills the current path according to the current fill rule (each sub-path is implicitly closed before being filled). After fill
, the current path will be cleared from the cairo context.
See also Cairo.set_fill_rule
.
val fill_preserve : context -> unit
A drawing operator that fills the current path according to the current fill rule (each sub-path is implicitly closed before being filled). Unlike Cairo.fill
, fill_preserve
preserves the path within the cairo context.
See also Cairo.set_fill_rule
.
Computes a bounding box in user coordinates covering the area that would be affected (the "inked" area) by a fill
operation given the current path and fill parameters. If the current path is empty, returns an empty rectangle { x=0.;
y=0.; w=0.; h=0. }
. Surface dimensions and clipping are not taken into account.
Contrast with Cairo.Path.extents
, which is similar, but returns non-zero extents for some paths with no inked area, (such as a simple line segment).
Note that fill_extents
must necessarily do more work to compute the precise inked areas in light of the fill rule, so Cairo.Path.extents
may be more desirable for sake of performance if the non-inked path extents are desired.
See Cairo.fill
and Cairo.set_fill_rule
.
val in_fill : context -> x:float -> y:float -> bool
Tests whether the given point is inside the area that would be affected by a fill
operation given the current path and filling parameters. Surface dimensions and clipping are not taken into account.
See also Cairo.fill
and Cairo.set_fill_rule
.
mask cr pattern
: a drawing operator that paints the current source using the alpha channel of pattern
as a mask. (Opaque areas of pattern
are painted with the source, transparent areas are not painted.)
mask cr pattern
: a drawing operator that paints the current source using the alpha channel of pattern
as a mask. (Opaque areas of pattern
are painted with the source, transparent areas are not painted.)
mask_surface cr surface x y
: a drawing operator that paints the current source using the alpha channel of surface
as a mask. (Opaque areas of surface
are painted with the source, transparent areas are not painted.)
val paint : ?alpha:float -> context -> unit
A drawing operator that paints the current source everywhere within the current clip region. If alpha
is set, the drawing is faded out using the alpha value.
val stroke : context -> unit
A drawing operator that strokes the current path according to the current line width, line join, line cap, and dash settings. After stroke
, the current path will be cleared from the cairo context. See Cairo.set_line_width
, Cairo.set_line_join
, Cairo.set_line_cap
, and Cairo.set_dash
.
Note: Degenerate segments and sub-paths are treated specially and provide a useful result. These can result in two different situations:
1. Zero-length "on" segments set in Cairo.set_dash
. If the cap style is ROUND
or SQUARE
then these segments will be drawn as circular dots or squares respectively. In the case of SQUARE
, the orientation of the squares is determined by the direction of the underlying path.
2. A sub-path created by Cairo.move_to
followed by either a Cairo.Path.close
or one or more calls to Cairo.line_to
to the same coordinate as the Cairo.move_to
. If the cap style is ROUND
then these sub-paths will be drawn as circular dots. Note that in the case of SQUARE
line cap, a degenerate sub-path will not be drawn at all (since the correct orientation is indeterminate).
In no case will a cap style of BUTT
cause anything to be drawn in the case of either degenerate segments or sub-paths.
val stroke_preserve : context -> unit
Like Cairo.stroke
except that it preserves the path within the cairo context.
Computes a bounding box in user coordinates covering the area that would be affected (the "inked" area) by a Cairo.stroke
operation operation given the current path and stroke parameters. If the current path is empty, returns an empty rectangle { x=0.; y=0.; w=0.; h=0. }
. Surface dimensions and clipping are not taken into account.
Note that if the line width is set to exactly zero, then stroke_extents
will return an empty rectangle. Contrast with Cairo.Path.extents
which can be used to compute the non-empty bounds as the line width approaches zero.
Note that stroke_extents
must necessarily do more work to compute the precise inked areas in light of the stroke parameters, so Cairo.Path.extents
may be more desirable for sake of performance if non-inked path extents are desired.
See Cairo.stroke
, Cairo.set_line_width
, Cairo.set_line_join
, Cairo.set_line_cap
, and Cairo.set_dash
.
val in_stroke : context -> x:float -> y:float -> bool
Tests whether the given point is inside the area that would be affected by a Cairo.stroke
operation given the current path and stroking parameters. Surface dimensions and clipping are not taken into account.
val copy_page : context -> unit
copy_page cr
emits the current page for backends that support multiple pages, but doesn't clear it, so, the contents of the current page will be retained for the next page too. Use Cairo.show_page
if you want to get an empty page after the emission.
This is a convenience function that simply calls Cairo.Surface.copy_page
on cr
's target.
val show_page : context -> unit
copy_page cr
emits the current page for backends that support multiple pages, but doesn't clear it, so, the contents of the current page will be retained for the next page too. Use Cairo.show_page
if you want to get an empty page after the emission.
This is a convenience function that simply calls Cairo.Surface.copy_page
on cr
's target.
show_page cr
emits and clears the current page for backends that support multiple pages. Use Cairo.copy_page
if you don't want to clear the page.
This is a convenience function that simply calls Cairo.Surface.show_page
on cr
's target.
Paths are the most basic drawing tools and are primarily used to implicitly generate simple masks.
module Path : sig ... end
val arc :
context ->
x:float ->
y:float ->
r:float ->
a1:float ->
a2:float ->
unit
arc xc yc radius angle1 angle2
adds a circular arc of the given radius to the current path. The arc is centered at (xc,
yc)
, begins at angle1
and proceeds in the direction of increasing angles to end at angle2
. If angle2
is less than angle1
it will be progressively increased by 2*PI until it is greater than angle1
.
If there is a current point, an initial line segment will be added to the path to connect the current point to the beginning of the arc. If this initial line is undesired, it can be avoided by calling Cairo.Path.sub
before calling arc
.
Angles are measured in radians. An angle of 0.0 is in the direction of the positive X axis (in user space). An angle of PI/2.0 radians (90 degrees) is in the direction of the positive Y axis (in user space). Angles increase in the direction from the positive X axis toward the positive Y axis. So with the default transformation matrix, angles increase in a clockwise direction.
(To convert from degrees to radians, use degrees * (PI / 180.).)
This function gives the arc in the direction of increasing angles; see Cairo.arc_negative
to get the arc in the direction of decreasing angles.
The arc is circular in user space. To achieve an elliptical arc, you can scale the current transformation matrix by different amounts in the X and Y directions. For example, to draw an ellipse in the box given by x
, y
, width
, height
(we suppose pi
holds the value of PI):
open Cairo
save cr;
translate cr (x +. width /. 2.) (y +. height /. 2.);
scale cr (width /. 2.) (height /. 2.);
arc cr 0. 0. 1. 0. (2 * pi);
restore cr;
val arc_negative :
context ->
x:float ->
y:float ->
r:float ->
a1:float ->
a2:float ->
unit
arc_negative xc yc radius angle1 angle2
adds a circular arc of the given radius to the current path. The arc is centered at (xc, yc)
, begins at angle1
and proceeds in the direction of decreasing angles to end at angle2
. If angle2
is greater than angle1
it will be progressively decreased by 2*PI until it is less than angle1
.
See Cairo.arc
for more details. This function differs only in the direction of the arc between the two angles.
val curve_to :
context ->
x1:float ->
y1:float ->
x2:float ->
y2:float ->
x3:float ->
y3:float ->
unit
Adds a cubic Bézier spline to the path from the current point to position (x3, y3) in user-space coordinates, using (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) as the control points. After this call the current point will be (x3, y3).
If there is no current point before the call to curve_to
this function will behave as if preceded by a call to Cairo.move_to
cr x1 y1
.
val line_to : context -> x:float -> y:float -> unit
Adds a line to the path from the current point to position (x, y) in user-space coordinates. After this call the current point will be (x, y).
If there is no current point before the call to Cairo.line_to
, this function will behave as Cairo.move_to
cr x y
.
val move_to : context -> x:float -> y:float -> unit
Begin a new sub-path. After this call the current point will be (x, y).
val rectangle : context -> x:float -> y:float -> w:float -> h:float -> unit
Adds a closed sub-path rectangle of the given size to the current path at position (x, y) in user-space coordinates.
This function is logically equivalent to:
move_to cr x y;
rel_line_to cr width 0;
rel_line_to cr 0 height;
rel_line_to cr (-. width) 0;
Path.close cr;
val rel_curve_to :
context ->
x1:float ->
y1:float ->
x2:float ->
y2:float ->
x3:float ->
y3:float ->
unit
Relative-coordinate version of Cairo.curve_to
. All offsets are relative to the current point. Adds a cubic Bézier spline to the path from the current point to a point offset from the current point by (dx3, dy3), using points offset by (dx1, dy1) and (dx2, dy2) as the control points. After this call the current point will be offset by (dx3, dy3).
Given a current point of (x, y), rel_curve_to cr dx1 dy1 dx2
dy2 dx3 dy3
is logically equivalent to curve_to cr (x+.dx1)
(y+.dy1) (x+.dx2) (y+.dy2) (x+.dx3) (y+.dy3)
.
It is an error to call this function with no current point. Doing so will cause Error NO_CURRENT_POINT
to be raised.
val rel_line_to : context -> x:float -> y:float -> unit
Relative-coordinate version of Cairo.line_to
. Adds a line to the path from the current point to a point that is offset from the current point by (dx, dy) in user space. After this call the current point will be offset by (dx, dy).
Given a current point of (x, y), rel_line_to cr dx dy
is logically equivalent to line_to cr (x +. dx) (y +. dy)
.
It is an error to call this function with no current point. Doing so will cause Error NO_CURRENT_POINT
to be raised.
val rel_move_to : context -> x:float -> y:float -> unit
Begin a new sub-path. After this call the current point will offset by (x, y).
Given a current point of (x, y), rel_move_to cr dx dy
is logically equivalent to move_to cr (x +. dx) (y +. dy)
.
It is an error to call this function with no current point. Doing so will cause Error NO_CURRENT_POINT
to be raised.
The current transformation matrix, ctm, is a two-dimensional affine transformation that maps all coordinates and other drawing instruments from the user space into the surface's canonical coordinate system, also known as the device space.
See also Cairo.Matrix
.
val translate : context -> x:float -> y:float -> unit
translate cr tx ty
modifies the current transformation matrix (CTM) by translating the user-space origin by (tx
, ty
). This offset is interpreted as a user-space coordinate according to the CTM in place before the new call to translate
. In other words, the translation of the user-space origin takes place after any existing transformation.
val scale : context -> x:float -> y:float -> unit
scale sx sy
modifies the current transformation matrix (CTM) by scaling the X and Y user-space axes by sx
and sy
respectively. The scaling of the axes takes place after any existing transformation of user space.
val rotate : context -> angle:float -> unit
Modifies the current transformation matrix (CTM) by rotating the user-space axes by angle
radians. The rotation of the axes takes places after any existing transformation of user space. The rotation direction for positive angles is from the positive X axis toward the positive Y axis.
transform cr matrix
modifies the current transformation matrix (CTM) by applying matrix
as an additional transformation. The new transformation of user space takes place after any existing transformation.
set_matrix cr matrix
Modifies the current transformation matrix (CTM) by setting it equal to matrix
.
val identity_matrix : context -> unit
Resets the current transformation matrix (CTM) by setting it equal to the identity matrix. That is, the user-space and device-space axes will be aligned and one user-space unit will transform to one device-space unit.
val user_to_device : context -> x:float -> y:float -> float * float
user_to_device cr x y
transform a coordinate from user space to device space by multiplying the given point by the current transformation matrix (CTM).
val user_to_device_distance : context -> x:float -> y:float -> float * float
user_to_device_distance cr dx dy
transform a distance vector from user space to device space. This function is similar to Cairo.user_to_device
except that the translation components of the CTM will be ignored when transforming (dx
,dy
).
val device_to_user : context -> x:float -> y:float -> float * float
Transform a coordinate from device space to user space by multiplying the given point by the inverse of the current transformation matrix (CTM).
val device_to_user_distance : context -> x:float -> y:float -> float * float
device_to_user_distance cr dx dy
transform a distance vector from device space to user space. This function is similar to Cairo.device_to_user
except that the translation components of the inverse CTM will be ignored when transforming (dx
,dy
).